Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town and area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid recommendation SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode starts LL75. The area population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name implies at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and it is located near Traeth Coch (Red Jetty Bay). There is a little river, Afon Nodwydd which runs through it. The village's ancient name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a fight when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with an army elevated in Ireland in an effort to assert a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the death of his daddy Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated as well as eliminated here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens remained in the town on his trip, as a journalist for The Times, to go to the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 and also 1950 it was served by Pentraeth railway station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd League, the 4th tier of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and also the Panton Arms pub as well as a row of shops called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It proceeded as a supermarket into the 1990s, as well as is now occupied by a carpet store in addition to a pastry shop and party-ware hire shop.